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Departmental Computers

Volume 479: debated on Monday 21 July 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what estimate he has made of (a) the number of computer devices left on overnight in his Department when not in use and (b) the cost per year of leaving computer devices on overnight when not in use in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement. (217864)

The Department has implemented software to automatically turn off all PCs, that may have been left on, at an agreed time overnight. As a result, no energy is consumed overnight by IT desktop devices.